linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] slub: reparent memcg caches' slabs on memcg offline

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405221422390.15766@gentwo.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 14:25:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
cc:	hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] slub: reparent memcg caches' slabs on memcg
 offline

On Thu, 22 May 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 07:13:21PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 May 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> >
> > > Do I understand you correctly that the following change looks OK to you?
> >
> > Almost. Preemption needs to be enabled before functions that invoke the
> > page allocator etc etc.
>
> I need to disable preemption only in slab_free, which never blocks
> according to its semantics, so everything should be fine just like that.

slab_free calls __slab_free which can release slabs via
put_cpu_partial()/unfreeze_partials()/discard_slab() to the page
allocator. I'd rather have preemption enabled there.

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